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Jane Tillett
1745 - 1809

Jane Tillett was born about 1745 somewhere in Virginia and died about 1809 in Hancock County, Georgia. Dates for birth and death are estimated. She lived to be about 64 years old.

Her parents were James and Frances Tillet.
She married Daniel Thomas.
children:
Jane (abt.1765)
James (abt.1774)
Elijah (abt.1776)
Ann (abt.1778)
Leah (abt.1780)
Elizabeth (abt.1782)
Catherine(abt.1783)

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Age	Date	Event
4	1749	Mary Musgrove declares herself Empress of the Creeks and marches on Savannah with a Creek Army to either collect moneys due her for services rendered during the War of Jenkin's Ear or to drive whites from Creek lands.
13	1758	Georgia organized into 8 parishes: Christ Church, Saint Andrew, Saint George, Saint James, Saint John, Saint Matthew, Saint Paul and Saint Philip.
18	1763	The Treaty of Augusta created the first defined line between the Creeks and the colony of Georgia by using well known trails and rivers.
28	1773	Debts the Creeks and Cherokee owe to Georgians are assumed by the state in payment for the land. This includes a small portion of North Georgia.
37	1782	The British evacuate Savannah on in July.
39	1784	Franklin and Washington Counties are formed.
40	1785	Burbon County formed.
41	1786	Greene County was created the same year Oglethorpe dies.
43	1788	Bourbon County Act rescinded.
44	1789	December 21 - Governor Telfair signs first Yazoo Act selling 20,000,000 acres of and for $207,000 or about one cent per acre to. The Yazoo Companies attempted to pay in worthless paper money and Georgia refuses to transfer the land. The Virginia Yazoo, headed by Patrick Henry, even had the unmitigated gall to attempt to pay in worthless Georgia paper money. The South Carolina Yazoo Company sues Georgia in the U.S. Supreme Court to compel delivery but the suit fails when Georgia is able to obtain ratification of the eleventh amendment to the U.S. Constitution on February 7, 1795.
45	1790	Columbia and Elbert Counties are created.
45	1790	Alexander McGillivray, a mixed-blood of the Upper Creek Nation cedes the Altamaha lands to the Oconee. This treaty -- Treaty of New York -- is signed by President George Washington.
48	1793	Hancock, Bryan, McIntosh, Montgomery, Oglethorpe and Warren Counties formed. This same year, the Fugitive Slave Act is passed.
49	1794	General Clarke surrenders ending the Oconee War.
50	1795	Governor Mathews signs the Second Yazoo Act selling somewhere between 35,000,000 and 50,000,000 acres of land for $500,000.
56	1801	Clarke and Tatnall Counties formed.
57	1802	Georgia formally cedes western claims for its southern boundary at the 31st parallel -- which will become a border between,GA, FL and AL. GA's western border reaches to the Mississippi River.
58	1803	Between 1803 and 1811 a horse trail is established connecting Milledgeville, Georgia to Fort Stoddert, American outpost north of Mobile. This is expanded into a road and called The Federal Road by 1811.
62	1807	December 10 - Jasper, Jones, Laurens, Morgan, Putnam, and Telfair Counties formed.
63	1808	Pulaski County created.
64	1809	Twiggs County formed.

Age	Date	Event
7	1752	Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar on 9/14/1752.
24	1769	The first steam engine is invented by Watt
32	1777	The concept of chemical compounds is conceived by Lavoisier
38	1783	The hot air balloon is invented by Michel and Montgolfier and the first people in modern history fly at an altitude of 1800 m.
40	1785	The power loom was invented by Cartwright to produce cloth.
48	1793	The cotton gin was invented by Whitney.
54	1799	The Rosetta Stone was discovered
55	1800	The first battery was invented by Volta
62	1807	The first steamboat was invented by Fulton

Age	Date	Event
4	1749	Laws in GA prohibiting the importation of slaves are rescinded. Georgia planters were hiring SC slaves for life and even openly purchasing slaves at the dock in Savannah.
30	1775	NEWS HEADLINES: On April 18th, Paul Revere makes his famous ride proclaiming "The British are Coming" and the American Revolution War begins. Britain hires 29,000 German mercenaries to handle conflict in North America.
31	1776	NEWS HEADLINES: July 4th, American Revolution War ends and the United States of America is officially created.
55	1800	NEWS HEADLINES: Seat of U.S. government moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC

Age	Date	Event
2	1747	The New York Bar Association is founded in New York City
5	1750	Charleston, SC, has become the most affluent and largest city in the South. It is the leading port and trading center for the southern colonies. The population in the Carolinas has exceeded 100,000 with many French Protestant Huguenots. The wealth plantation owners bring private tutors from Ireland and Scotland. Public education does not exist.
15	1760	The Cherokee War (1760-61) ends in a treaty that opens the Up County for settlement. The Bounty At of 1761 offers public land tax free for ten years, and settlers from other colonies begin pouring into the Carolina "Up Country".
18	1763	Georgia Gazette begins publication. It is the first newspaper in Georgia and the eighth newspaper in the English colonies.
21	1766	Britain passes the Stamp Act taxing all colonial newspapers, advertisements, leases, licenses, pamphlets, and legal documents. Later the same year, Britain repeals the Stamp Act in Britain -- but it continues to be enforced on colonists in North America
28	1773	Angered by the tea tax of 1767 and the British East India Company's monopoly on tea trade, the independent New England colonial merchants dump the precious cargo overboard into the Boston harbor. This incident is called the Boston Tea Party.
29	1774	The First Continental Congress of fifty-five representatives (except from the colony of Georgia) meets in Philadelphia to discuss relations with Britain, the possibility of independence, and the hope of a peaceful solution. King George III scorns the thought of reconciliation and declares the colonies to be in a state of open rebellion.
30	1775	On April 18th, Paul Revere makes his famous ride proclaiming "The British are Coming" and the American Revolution War begins. Britain hires 29,000 German mercenaries to handle conflict in North America.
31	1776	July 4th, American Revolution War ends and the United States of America is officially created.
33	1778	Alliance between United States and France
42	1787	Constitution of the United States is signed
48	1793	Alexander McGillivray, the head of the Creek Indian Nation, dies. A restlessness begins to grow among the Indians in what is now Georgia, Alabama and Northern Florida as town chiefs via for the vacant leadership role.
49	1794	The United States establishes the Navy
53	1798	Mississippi Territory organized from Georgia's western land claims. It includes what will later become portions of Mississippi, Alabama and Northern Florida,
58	1803	Louisiana Purchase from France (who secured it from Spain) gives the US a huge new territory and the port of New Orleans.
59	1804	The Seminole warrior later known as Osceola is born near Tuskegee, AL.
60	1805	Federal Road project begins after the Creek Indians give the U.S. permission to develop a �horse path� through their nation that will provide better mail delivery between Washington City (DC) and New Orleans. Soon settlers are traveling and settling along this path to settle the southern frontier.
61	1806	Lewis and Clark Expedition, which began in 1804, ends. News of the rich lands to the west begins to spread.

Age	Date	Event
3	1748	King George's War against North America and Caribbean ends
11	1756	Seven Year's War begins
14	1759	Jesuits are forced out of France
18	1763	Seven Year's War ends; Peace is established in Paris between France, Spain, England and Portugal
19	1764	Britain passes the Sugar Act forbids American importation of foreign rum and taxing imported molasses, wine, silk, coffee, and a number of other luxury items.
22	1767	Jesuits are forced out of Spanish America
34	1779	Spain declares war on England
35	1780	Josef II abolishes serfdom in Hungary; England declares war on Holland
38	1783	Peace established at Versailles between France, England, Spain and United States; Britain cedes all lands west to the Mississippi River
42	1787	Catherine the Great leads Russia into war with Turkey
43	1788	Russia begins war with Sweden
44	1789	French feudal system is abolished with the Declaration of Rights of Man. Outbreak of hostilities in France with the fall of the Bastille on July 14; Revolution in Austrian Netherlands declares independence as Belgium
47	1792	French Revolutionary Wars begin and the French royal family is imprisoned the following year
48	1793	Marie Antoinette is executed; Fugitive Slave Act passed; Roman Catholic faith is banned in France; France declares war on Britain and Holland.
50	1795	White Terror and bread riots in Paris
51	1796	Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais
52	1797	Napoleon proclaims the Venetian Constitution, founds Ligurian Republic in Genoa

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Daniel Thomas
Born about 1735 and died about 1783

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The Children of Jane Tillett

Jane Thomas
Born in an unknown place about 1758 and died somewhere in Georgia about 1845. She was about 87 years old.

She was the daughter of Daniel Thomas and Jane Tillet.

She married Michael they had the following children:

Andrew Maddox, (1770 Va. - 1827-30 Marion Co., AL) - Leah Trammell

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